Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Surfing the Blogrolls

In surfing some of the blogrolls of the blogs I link to, I came across this one: Little Country Lost. It had this poster in one of the entries:


No, I don't think it will be that obvious. Fascism will arrive the way that the Right wants it to; by slowing boiling away our freedoms and liberties. This has been clear to me for a long time, beginning with the first time I heard a so-called conservative say: "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.

At one point, she gets into a lengthy series of post about the ten step program towards a fascist state:

1) Invoke a terrifying internal and external threat – the shock;
2)
Create a prison system outside the rule of law;
3)
Develop a group of thugs to terrorize citizens;
4)
An internal surveillance system is established;
5)
Infiltrate and harass citizens groups;
6)
Create a list that subjects those listed to arbitrary detention and release;
7)
Threaten key individuals with their jobs, or worse, if they don’t toe the line;
8)
Control the press;
9)
Cast dissent as “treason” and criticism as “espionage” ; and
10)
Suspend the rule of law.

I haven't read her analysis yet, but I shall. In the meantime, it seems to me that we are well on the way, with at least five of the items in progress (1-4, and 6), with attempts and/or partial success to do 5, 7, 8 and 9.

#10 is the biggie. And if Bush carries out his planned attack on Iran, and Iran manages to pull off a retaliatory strike, look for them all to fall into place.

We are not that far away from it. And the most depressing thing is that at least 20-30% of good little Germans Americans would fully support a fascist takeover.

(More later, Blogspot is about to go offline for posting)

1 comment:

Distributorcap said...

those posts were great -- i told her she should publish them

you are right -- we are heading down that road -- and many people would welcome it....